Events noted in 1789

The event pages are experimental; the OCR errors in the text mean
this is incomplete and unreliable but I offer it in the hopes that it
will be of some use. Events shown include births and deaths of
people with their own entries, and also the publication dates of some of
the works cited.

“I am not
ashamed to tell you that I am a Jew by choice, and not
because I was born a Jew; far from it; for I am clearly of
opinion that every person endowed with ratiocination ought
to have a clear idea of the truth of revelation, and a just
ground of his faith, as far as human evidence can go.” Levi, Davida learned Jew